Mark Bittman

Yeah, it did feel pretty great.

It was also frustrating because not everybody reads your column and they say, when are you going to write about bread?

And you say, well, I wrote about bread last week.

Or they're like, we agree, antibiotics should be out of the food supply and nothing would happen.

Or we agree, people should have access to land and nothing would happen.

I don't have to do it.

I think it's really sad that the Times does not have a person writing about this regularly.

There's no one in it.

There wasn't before and there wasn't after, and I think it's a mistake.

Yeah, that's interesting.

No one asks me what I think.

I did.

That's cool.

Let's see.

I started writing The Minimalist in 97, and we were still in the old building, which was on 43rd Street, which was kind of a slum is probably the wrong word.

Well, compared to the new one.

And then they built the new one, and I did get an office over there.

And when I got the opinion column, I got an even better office.

And I loved it.

It was great.